Let’s face it. Whether you like it or not, your brain is constantly changing in response to your environment and your thoughts and feelings. Do you want to simply allow your brain to be “rewired” based on your environment and what others do? Or would you like to have some say in how the rewiring takes place?

Here are 5 simple strategies to consciously and intentionally make use of this unique brain plasticity that we all are blessed with.

Have you seen those sci-fi movies and TV serials where highly advanced robots are designed to tweak, re-engineer and maintain themselves constantly? Our brains do that every day and we take all of that for granted. Knowledge of brain plasticity has profound implications in human learning and behavior, and mental health.

First of a series of posts on brain plasticity… As a child, we have all played with plasticene. The joy of making new things from existing plasticene is something that one never forgets. Our brain is like plasticene – malleable and changeable.